Health Promotion in Urgent and Emergency Care Settings - IHPE Masterclass Series

MASTERCLASS 4: Health Promotion in Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) settings and the implementation of Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol misuse. Speakers: Professor Holly Blake, Professor of Behavioural Medicine / chartered health psychologist, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK. Dr Emma Adams, Assistant Professor in Health Promotion and Public Health, University of Nottingham, UK. Lucy Morris RN, Health Improvement Research and Education Lead in Urgent and Emergency Care, DREEAM, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. Dr Frank Coffey, Emergency Medicine Consultant & Director of DREEAM Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust & Honorary Professor, Nottingham Trent University, UK. In this session we provide an overview of the unique role UEC settings can play in health promotion. We demonstrate the importance of embedding this in a whole-system,integrated approach to population health. We present findings from a national survey we undertook of healthcare workers’ attitudes towards promoting health in UEC settings and outline the barriers and enablers of health promotion practice as described by healthcare workers based in diverse UEC settings. SBIRT is an ideal, though underused, approach in UEC settings for identifying patients with risk factors impacting on their health, providing immediate input during a ‘teachable moment’ and referring, where appropriate, to specialist services.